Wash Post charts: At least 145,000 people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.
The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has killed at least 145,000 people in the United States since February. Numbers of cases are increasing in most states and soaring in some.
The overall daily death toll had declined from April through early July, largely because of a sharp decrease in New York and New Jersey. But by July 10, after all states had begun reopening, death numbers had begun to tick up again for the first time since March.
Health officials anticipated the rise because the virus had been accelerating through populous states such as Texas, Florida and California for weeks. Localities reported not only a surge in new cases but also large increases in hospitalizations, crowded ICUs, and a jump in the percentage of positive tests.
The United States topped 50,000 new cases in one day for the first time on July 1, two days after the country’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci, warned that the country could begin to see 100,000 new cases a day “if this does not turn around.”...
